Note also that civilian reactor "waste" brewed for more than a month has a mix of plutonium isotopes that makes it entirely unsuitable for practical nuclear weapons. Yeah, you can get a bit more than a squib if you're e.g. able to dissipate 100kW of heat (!) from the Pu-238 that's used for deep space probes, but the Pu-240 that made Hanford reactor plutonium unsuitable for the planned "Tall Man" gun assembly bombs strictly limits the potential yield.
This is cargo cult science at best, call it an allergy to anything "nuclear". Sort of like how the government collects a huge tax on reactor "waste", used it to build the Nevada Yucca Mountain repository (temporary construction jobs are always popular, as is "free" money), but just somehow never is going to get around to actually using the place. Well, that might change when Harry Reid retires, we'll see (heh, never considered that he was roughed up so badly he lost the use of his right eye due to eeeevil corporate nuclear power types, instead of his brother or "the mob").
This is cargo cult science at best, call it an allergy to anything "nuclear". Sort of like how the government collects a huge tax on reactor "waste", used it to build the Nevada Yucca Mountain repository (temporary construction jobs are always popular, as is "free" money), but just somehow never is going to get around to actually using the place. Well, that might change when Harry Reid retires, we'll see (heh, never considered that he was roughed up so badly he lost the use of his right eye due to eeeevil corporate nuclear power types, instead of his brother or "the mob").